Speaking of buildings : oral history in architectural research / Janina Gosseye, Naomi Stead, and Deborah van der Plaat, editors.

• Janina Gosseye: A short history of silence -- the epistemological politics of architectural historiography; Jesse Adams Stein and Emma Rowden: Speaking from the inside. Challenging the myths of architectural history through the oral histories od Maitland Gaol; Christien Wall: 'It was a totally diferent approach to building!'. Constructing architectural concrete in 1960s London; Jessica Kelly: Discources, ephemeral sources, and architectural history. Personality and the personal in the story of J. M. Richards; Helena Mattsson and Meike Schalk: Action Archive. Oral history as performance; Karen Burns: Oral history as activism -- the public politics of spoken memory; Sandra Parvu and Alice Sotgia: Building by ear. Ultra-red and Union de Vecinos in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles; kelly Greenop: Taking my place/talking your place. Race, research, and indigenous architectural history; Thomas-Bernard Kenniff: Making room for difference. Altering architectural research through interviews and fieldwork.;Ceren Kürüm: At the Threshold of Moral Doors -- Crossing into Rural Turkish Cypriot Womens Spaces; Ashley Paine: Reading between the Lines -- Reflections on an Interview with Mario Botta; Igea Troiani: Spoken-not-spoken, Written-not-written -- From Gossip and Rumor to Architectural History between Margin and Center; Andrea J. Merrett: When Subjects Cry.; Naomi Stead, Deborah van der Plaat and Janina Gosseye: Ways to Listen Anew--What Next for Oral History and Architecture?. 

• By and large, architectural historians use texts, drawings, and photographs to craft their narratives. Oral testimony from those who actually occupy or construct buildings is rarely taken as seriously. Speaking of Buildings offers a rebuttal, theorizing the radical potential of a methodology that has historically been cast as unreliable. Essays by an international group of scholars look at varied topics, from the role of gossip in undermining masculine narratives in architecture to workers' accounts of building with cement in midcentury London to a sound art piece created by oral testimonies from Los Angeles public housing residents. In sum, the authors call for a renewed form of listening to enrich our understanding of what buildings are, what they do, and what they mean to people. 

Ämnesord

Arkitekturteori  (sao)

Muntlig tradition  (sao)

Forskningsmetodik  (sao)

Oral history.  (LCSH)

Oral tradition  (lcsh)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ic:k Arkitektur: historia

Klassifikation

720 (DDC)

Ic:k (kssb/8)